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touch it. was using the planet channels available to people to change the show and more determined to build something here for the next generation the idea is the environment series of global 3000 on t.w. and all gnawing such. white people in this part of the world com get this shows you that you get in new york in london in you know for. dr sun dooku its mission is to help the blind see no matter how poor they are the napoleon my doctor has developed a method for treating cataracts inexpensively and effectively to date he has restored eyesight to over 100000 patients.

doctors are wheat and his team make the rounds of nepal's liberal areas they operate on local people who've developed cataracts. our mission is to deliver high quality sustainable i care specially for goes on to march to. baghdad. that's really been a sense of mission. working for. more than 3 tickets . out. i have a feeling team has got the solution. to come back to affordable claims practically. and he backs up that claim with thousands of cases dr drew each

run several hospitals in kathmandu and other nepali cities where patients of little means can get treatment the kicker is that only a few years after opening these hospitals are already paying for themselves. we have in chorus people who have money to pay fully under people who don't have much money be subsidized and thereby we can bring in some patients we cannot afford to be free of cost. the wait has the lenses required for the operation the made right in his hospital he even exports them at 1st he ruffled some feathers in the industry the going price for a lens was around $200.00 u.s. dollars dr who each brought it down to $3.00. these lenses are intended for patients in a paul's southern region. ordinarily very few people in the area would have access

to medical care. cataracts have left glassy how do you john functionally blind in both eyes she can only distinguish light and dark and is dependent on help from her relatives. good tonight i don't do anything at all i just sit around sometimes i look after my grandchildren what can i do absolutely nothing. her son r.j. is the family's sole provider the thing that. i'd be very happy if my mother were able to see again. then. so she'd be able to go everywhere on her own for me to separate and i. now along with hundreds of patients good lassie is waiting for her operation which will be free of charge. the

doctor who eats motivation for treating people like you lassie was not born of idealism he came from a poor family in a tiny remote village in the himalayas in his youth it hadn't occurred to him to take up medicine until one particular decisive experience. one of my closest meinolf. person to me was my younger sister and c and i used to live on an income on 2. 101 i was going to school. to develop to a close as we had back in probably late sixty's were to go to the doctor and doctor said caesar assistant to the prime of my medication sinister half sitting on a medication and you know he didn't have money and access to the 2nd line up so the doctor said done the best you could do is to go home and. i had

a little conversation with her and she said brother when you have a trustee you potential. to do something in life and please do not forget that you can do something in life and you know maybe this is going to last and we're going to meet. not long after that dr sister died. while dr who it is still on his way to the south of naipaul's his team starts making preparations over the next few days they'll be operating on nearly 1000 patients the base for their mobile surgical unit this time is the being a buddhist pilgrimage site with its dozens of temples. oh. but it. you know look you will know our colleagues are saying they can give us the big generator for the lights permanently. a little if the time

meditation center provided the space this time the surgery marathon is being funded with money from thailand. the conditions are almost luxurious in comparison with many places they've worked such as nepal's most on the region on the border with tibet. we have to. get here on a small country not currently on a. dangerous strain alter planes from there to walk or horseback for 4 days to reach. travel across. passes 60000 feet to get there. we need you to hang out. a solution to get into the are you so you spend is to hang out with meals on the seating. improvise some beatz wooden beats with nails and things like that.

the next morning the 4 surgeons have arrived and the operations can begin hundreds of cataract patients come in hoping they'll be able to see again. i think the morning we will come to have a flash like water. 50 doctors will meet looks over the patient's. colossi is here to waiting for her operation. the doctor prepares for his 1st surgery. at the. we're going to do probably about 250 patients today. at least one of the physicians have to screen. this is until one of the 40 is.

the surgeons all share the operating theater working side by side. now it's glossies turn doctor 2 weeks himself will operate on both of her eyes one after the other. is very precise and extremely quick on average he only takes 5 to 7 minutes per eye. doctor to wait removes the clouded lens he developed this technique himself in the 1980 s. . in western country in the street take about 45 minutes to one hour for surgery. and you no longer news for the disposables and very expensive. a new method was required for the nepali villagers. i was virtually sleeping

between dreaming. about the surgical technique nearly after 5 years of struggling a lot of horrible reach him down the stagnation surgical technique that was fairly simple and still get very good results through cost and could be done for a lot of patients dr roots method has been applied in countries like indonesia and even north korea now doctors come from all around the world to learn from him this time he and his team enjoy support from time doctors and volunteers doctor to pong is our on our own pan and doctor now a porn deshaun a city to have learned from him. god did it take me when i saw him. the new operating technique which doesn't use stitches or ultrasound i was impressed and since then i've been using this method on my patients in thailand i feel i bought. them for me in my case somebody told me about an operating method that took less

than 10 minutes at 1st i couldn't believe it but then when i saw a doctor a week to it i was amazed and i wanted to learn it from him and i'm buying. an artificial lens adapted to get lost his vision is implanted in her eye. and she's made it through the procedure. like. now everybody can rest up for the next day. the next morning the 253 patients who've had their operations come for their follow up exam it's the moment of truth for good lassie she'll find out if she can see

again. you. haven't done that get out there it is for the moment please keep your eyes closed the physical. the big moment has come. now you can open your eyes and look over here. can you see the see anything i did yes yes i'm ahead of the whole. look over here. trish i can see your right yes very well how many thing is that my holding up 5 and now 2 and now. 5 because i wanted so much to be able to see again i wanted to look at my thoughts now i can see everything. from you know more of my lead up.

to. one last checkup glasses operation went smoothly with no complications. i didn't feel a great move only for the fact of being able to see if they can make a difference to their families and are cool enough subsistence family like ours was drawing from me a good cultural family on the family members are going to gather pretty closely and one member is disturbed the pool rhythm of the family is disturbed funders that you can only go for show up to the social presser so dismembered we look back and revitalize the rhythm of the comedy. of. the from.

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